Hawzah News Agency (Beirut, Lebanon) - According to the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO), “Religions and the Environment” is the theme of this round of the interfaith dialogue.

It will be organized by ICRO’s Center for Dialogue among Religions and Civilizations and the Armenian Church of Cilicia.

The opening ceremony of the program will be addressed by Abuzar Ebrahimi Torkaman, the chief of the organization and Catholicos Aram I of the Great House of Cilicia.

“Environment and common ethical values in the Divine religions”, “interaction of religious leaders with the environment”, “effects of a healthy environment on individual and social life in view of Islam and Christianity” and “human and nature in the teachings of Islam and Christianity” are the themes to be investigated in the four sessions of the dialogue.

The closing ceremony of the program will be attended by the chief of ICRO, Hojat-ol-Islam Taskhiri, head of the Center for Dialogue among Religions and Civilizations and Aram I Keshishian, the head of the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

"The role of rationality and religious ethics in preventing violence” was the theme of the 7th round of the dialogue between Islam and Armenian Christianity, which was held in Tehran on December 13, 2016.